Cave of the Spezieria
In the western part of Cava Ispica there is the "Spezieria", partially collapsed at the entrance to the cave. The "Spezieria" of an environment consisting of a large quadrangular room. The walls have dozens of recesses that make you think of shelves and closets where you can place and neatly arrange jars and containers of ointments, creams, herbal potions of various kinds. Along one of the sides there are three irregular apses. It also occupies a large part of the wall, all around, a large circular seat carved into the rock. A hole dug in the limestone rock of the floor made us think of a kind of mortar, so much so as to induce some scholars to hypothesize that the site was used as a kind of pharmacy, hence the name "spezieria" as it is called in the local dialect. It seems that it may be a place intended as a sepulcher, modified later for a different destination, if we take into account the particular size of the cave, its circular shape and the low quay that surrounds most of the walls, as well as the cell.
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
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